Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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The Hold-up Problem in the Presence of Free Trade Agreement Negotiations
Published 2010-01-01This paper examines how the underinvestment that results from the hold-up problem is affected when there is some probability of reaching a free trade agreement (FTA). This paper examines the canonical domestic hold-up ...Open AccessThesis -
Pricing Decisions by Australian General Practitioners
Published 2008-01-01In the Australian market for primary healthcare, some General Practitioners (GPs) bulk bill patients while others charge them a direct fee. The prevalence of these two fee structures means that patients are paying different ...Open AccessThesis -
Ethnic Conflict: A Model of Concessions
Published 2008-01-01The Coase Theorem suggests that the ability of completely informed agents to make transfers should generally avert conflict. This thesis considers a complete information model of ethnic conflict where the dominated group ...Open AccessThesis -
Equilibrium Price Dispersion: A Model of Intermediated Search with Repeated Interaction
Published 2008-01-01This thesis develops a model in which homogeneous producers and merchants interact repeatedly in a search market. Merchants are able to reduce the cost of search by o ering trading certainty to pro- ducers with whom they ...Open AccessThesis -
Street Vendors tackle the Newsvendor Problem: An Experimental Inquiry into the Big Issue
Published 2008-03-17The Big Issue is a not-for-profit organisation that gives homeless people the opportunity to reclaim ownership over their lives by selling a street magazine. The vendors must purchase the magazine from the Big Issue office ...Open AccessThesis